Kafui Dzirasa

Kafui Dzirasa

A. Eugene and Marie Washington Presidential Distinguished Professor

Appointments and Affiliations

  • A. Eugene and Marie Washington Presidential Distinguished Professor
  • Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  • Professor in Neurobiology
  • Professor in Neurosurgery

Contact Information

  • Office Location: Bryan Research Bldg, Room 361, Durham, NC 27710
  • Office Phone: (919) 681-7371
  • Email Address: kafui.dzirasa@duke.edu

Education

  • Duke University School of Medicine, 2016
  • M.D. Duke University School of Medicine, 2009
  • Ph.D. Duke University, 2007

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Elected Member. National Academy of Medicine. 2021
  • HHMI Investigator. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 2021

Courses Taught

  • BME 791: Graduate Independent Study
  • BME 792: Continuation of Graduate Independent Study
  • NEUROBIO 393: Research Independent Study
  • NEUROSCI 493: Research Independent Study 1
  • NEUROSCI 494: Research Independent Study 2
  • PSY 494: Research Independent Study

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Walder-Christensen, K; Abdelaal, K; Klein, H; Thomas, GE; Gallagher, NM; Talbot, A; Adamson, E; Rawls, A; Hughes, D; Mague, SD; Dzirasa, K; Carlson, DE, Electome network factors: Capturing emotional brain networks related to health and disease., Cell Reports Methods, vol 4 no. 1 (2024) [10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100691] [abs].
  • Kirchner, SJ; Lei, V; Kim, PT; Patel, M; Shannon, JL; Corcoran, D; Hughes, D; Waters, DK; Dzirasa, K; Erdmann, D; Coers, J; MacLeod, AS; Zhang, JY, An aging-susceptible circadian rhythm controls cutaneous antiviral immunity., Jci Insight, vol 8 no. 20 (2023) [10.1172/jci.insight.171548] [abs].
  • Widge, AS; Jordan, A; Kraguljac, NV; Sullivan, CRP; Wilson, S; Benton, TD; Alpert, JE; Carpenter, LL; Krystal, JH; Nemeroff, CB; Dzirasa, K, Structural Racism in Psychiatric Research Careers: Eradicating Barriers to a More Diverse Workforce., American Journal of Psychiatry, vol 180 no. 9 (2023), pp. 645-659 [10.1176/appi.ajp.20220685] [abs].
  • Talbot, A; Dunson, D; Dzirasa, K; Carlson, D, Estimating a brain network predictive of stress and genotype with supervised autoencoders., Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied Statistics, vol 72 no. 4 (2023), pp. 912-936 [10.1093/jrsssc/qlad035] [abs].
  • Mays, A; Byars-Winston, A; Hinton, A; Marshall, AG; Kirabo, A; August, A; Marlin, BJ; Riggs, B; Tolbert, B; Wanjalla, C; Womack, C; Evans, CS; Barnes, C; Starbird, C; Williams, C; Reynolds, C; Taabazuing, C; Cameron, CE; Murray, DD; Applewhite, D; Morton, DJ; Lee, D; Williams, DW; Lynch, D; Brady, D; Lynch, E; Rutaganira, FUN; Silva, GM; Shuler, H; Saboor, IA; Davis, J; Dzirasa, K; Hammonds-Odie, L; Reyes, L; Sweetwyne, MT; McReynolds, MR; Johnson, MDL; Smith, NA; Pittman, N; Ajijola, OA; Smith, Q; Robinson, RAS; Lewis, SC; Murray, SA; Black, S; Neal, SE; Andrisse, S; Townsend, S; Damo, SM; Griffith, TN; Lambert, WM; Clemons, WM, Juneteenth in STEMM and the barriers to equitable science., Cell, vol 186 no. 12 (2023), pp. 2510-2517 [10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.016] [abs].